Monthly summary

December 2011 had very much below average maximum temperatures
and below average minimum temperatures. Redlands and Logan City
both broke their previous lowest daily maximum temperatures on the
7th. The coolest on average overall was at Brisbane Airport
(22.3 °C) and the wetest overall was at Redcliffe (162.2 mm)

January
2012 experienced above average rainfall and below average
temperatures. Redcliffe was the wettest overall (510.6 mm) and
Brisbane Airport the coolest (24.2 °C)

February 2012 was overall average, but on the cool side, with essentially average rainfall and cool temperatures. Logan was the wettest overall (225.3 mm) and Amberley the coolest (24.5 °C)

Rainfall

The wettest overall was Redcliffe with 819.8 mm, followed by Redlands HRS with 766.0 mm, followed by Logan City Water Treatment Plant with 695.4 mm.

The driest overall was Amberley AMO with 394.2 mm, followed by Archerfield Airport with 584.0 mm, followed by Brisbane Aero with 620.0 mm.

The wettest single day was at Redlands HRS with 250.6 mm on 25 Jan 2012, followed by Redcliffe with 234.8 mm on 25 Jan 2012, followed by Brisbane Aero with 174.6 mm on 25 Jan 2012.

Minimum temperature

The coldest night was at Amberley AMO with 11.5 °C on 3 Dec 2011, followed by Amberley AMO with 12.3 °C on 18 Dec 2011, followed by Amberley AMO with 12.9 °C on 9 Dec 2011.

The coolest nights on average were at Amberley AMO with 18.1 °C, followed by Archerfield Airport with 19.1 °C, followed by Logan City Water Treatment Plant with 19.4 °C.

The warmest nights on average were at Redcliffe with 20.8 °C, followed by Brisbane with 20.2 °C, followed by Brisbane Aero with 19.9 °C.

The warmest night was at Redcliffe with 25.0 °C on 10 Jan 2012, followed by Brisbane with 24.6 °C on 10 Jan 2012, followed by Redcliffe with 24.6 °C on 1 Feb 2012, followed by Redcliffe with 24.6 °C on 7 Feb 2012, followed by Redlands HRS with 24.4 °C on 1 Feb 2012.

Wind

The strongest wind gust was at Amberley AMO with 83 km/h on 11 Dec 2011, followed by Amberley AMO with 81 km/h on 19 Jan 2012, followed by Redcliffe with 70 km/h on 1 Dec 2011, followed by Archerfield Airport with 70 km/h on 11 Dec 2011.

Notes

A Seasonal Climate Summary is prepared to list the main features of
the weather in Brisbane Metro using the most timely and accurate
information available on the date of publication; it will generally not be updated. Later information, including data that has had greater opportunity for quality control, will be presented in the Monthly Weather Review, usually published in the fourth week of the month.

This statement has been prepared based on information available at
10 am on Thursday 1 March 2012.
Some checks have been made on the data, but it is possible that results will change
as new information becomes available.

Averages are long-term means based on observations from
all available years of record, which vary widely from site to site.
They are not shown for sites with less than 9 years of record, as they cannot then be calculated reliably.
The median
is sometimes more representative than the
mean
of long-term average rain.

The Rank indicates how rainfall this time compares with the climate record for the site,
based on the
decile ranking
(very low rainfall is in decile 1, low in decile 2 or 3,
average in decile 4 to 7, high in decile 8 or 9
and very high is in decile 10).
The Fraction of average shows how much rain has fallen this time as a
percentage of the long-term mean.